Deimos-1 is a Spanish

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 Earth imaging satellite

Satellite

In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....

 which is operated by Deimos Imaging

Deimos Imaging

Deimos Imaging is a Spanish company which operates a complete Remote Sensing system. The system comprises the satellite, Deimos-1, the ground station at Boecillo near Valladolid, the reception hardware hosted at KSAT, Svalbard and an image processing laboratory with generation of agricultural and...

. It was constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology, based on the SSTL-100 satellite bus

Satellite bus

A satellite bus or spacecraft bus is the general model on which multiple-production satellite spacecraft are often based. The bus is the infrastructure of a spacecraft, usually providing locations for the payload .They are most commonly used for geosynchronous satellites, particularly...

. Deimos Imaging

Deimos Imaging

Deimos Imaging is a Spanish company which operates a complete Remote Sensing system. The system comprises the satellite, Deimos-1, the ground station at Boecillo near Valladolid, the reception hardware hosted at KSAT, Svalbard and an image processing laboratory with generation of agricultural and...

 commercializes its imagery directly but also has distribution agreements with other entities like Astrium GEO

Spot Image

Spot Image, a public limited company created in 1982 by the French Space Agency, Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales , the IGN, and Space Manufacturers is a subsidiary of EADS Astrium...

 and DMC International Imaging

DMC International Imaging

DMC International Imaging is the company that manages the Disaster Monitoring Constellation for the International Charter for Space and Major Disasters. It also sells satellite imaging services under contract. DMCII is a wholly owned subsidiary of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd...

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Deimos-1 was launched into a 686 kilometres (426.3 mi) sun-synchronous

Sun-synchronous orbit

A Sun-synchronous orbit is a geocentric orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that an object on that orbit ascends or descends over any given point of the Earth's surface at the same local mean solar time. The surface illumination angle will be nearly the same every time...

 low Earth orbit

Low Earth orbit

A low Earth orbit is generally defined as an orbit within the locus extending from the Earth’s surface up to an altitude of 2,000 km...

. The launch was conducted by ISC Kosmotras

ISC Kosmotras

The International Space Company Kosmotras or ISC Kosmotras is a joint project, between Russia, Ukraine, and the Kazakhstan, established in 1997. It developed and now operates a commercial expendable launch system using the Dnepr rocket. The Dnepr is a converted Soviet era SS-18 ICBM decommissioned...

, who used a Dnepr-1 carrier rocket, with DubaiSat-1

DubaiSat-1

DubaiSat-1 is an Emirati remote sensing satellite which is being operated by the Emirates Institution of Advanced Science and Technology. It was constructed by the Satrec Initiative, based on the SI-200 satellite bus....

 as the primary payload. Deimos-1, along with the UK-DMC 2

UK-DMC 2

UK-DMC 2 is a British Earth imaging satellite which is operated by DMC International Imaging. It was constructed by Surrey Satellite Technology, based on the SSTL-100 satellite bus. It is part of Britain's contribution to the Disaster Monitoring Constellation, which is coordinated by DMC...

, Nanosat 1B, AprizeSat-3 and AprizeSat-4 satellites, were launched as secondary payloads. The rocket was launched at 18:46 GMT on 29 July 2009, from Site 109/95

Baikonur Cosmodrome Site 109

Site 109/95 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome is a missile silo built for use by the R-36 missile, which has been converted into a launch site for the Dnepr-1 carrier rocket....

 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome

Baikonur Cosmodrome

The Baikonur Cosmodrome , also called Tyuratam, is the world's first and largest operational space launch facility. It is located in the desert steppe of Kazakhstan, about east of the Aral Sea, north of the Syr Darya river, near Tyuratam railway station, at 90 meters above sea level...

 in Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...

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The satellite has a design life of five years. It carries a multi-spectral imager with a resolution of 22 metres (72.2 ft) and 600 kilometres (372.8 mi) of swath, operating in green, red and near infrared spectra.